Patreon Billing Update (Patreon)

This is a reminder of the changes to the billing process for this campaign that were discussed in January. Later this week Patreon will be switching this campaign from "per creation billing" to "subscription billing" (because they are getting rid of per creation billing entirely, which was the only billing format we had back when I started this campaign in 2013).

This should result in absolutely no change for existing patrons. For the past ten+ years, I've posted ten maps a month to the blog. The way we are switching over from per-creation to subscription billing is as follows:

If you have a maximum monthly expenditure that was lower than your "per creation" pledge, then that will be your subscription cost (so if you were a $5 patron who capped at 5 creations per month, you will still be paying $25 per month).

If you do not have a maximum monthly expenditure, then your subscription cost will be your per creation pledge x 10 (so if you were a $2.50 patron with no cap you were paying $25 per month, and will still be paying the same amount).

Once the transition is done, I'll be rolling out new patron tiers with better defined benefits (what tiers get access to the backstage pass, end of month PDF, release the kraken, colour and blue tone maps, etc) - but the existing tiers will continue to exist as they are now, just hidden away behind the scenes so new patrons will pick from the new tiers.

Thank you again for your support through this. I've always enjoyed the per-creation system and it has worked very well for this campaign through the 13 years we've been on this platform, but Patreon is moving on and for the last eight years all new features introduced on the platform were restricted to campaigns that are not using per-creation billing.